“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is a quote commonly used for a person that will very quickly judge another but once they are being criticized that same person thinks it is unfair. This quote sums up Miss Brills character in her self titled short story by Katherine Mansfield. The setting is placed on a Sunday afternoon, on Miss Brills normal bench she sits on every Sunday. Miss Brill is an extremely lonely and narcissistic woman and the reader can see these traits in her the farther into the story they read. In the first paragraph of the story Miss Brill pulls out her fur.
In this quotes Dickinson is saying that everything she writes is a part of her. She writes about her life, her feeling and so many other things, there was no way pieces of printed paper could express it like her. It would not be morally right to publish such greatness. Also in the Article by Joanne Dobson called “"Emily Dickinson And The 'Prickly Art' Of Housekeeping." She says “Dickinson’s withdrawal into her home of refusal to publish were not aberrations rooted in psychological alienation from her society.
‘The moon and the Yew Tree’ is a poem whereby Slyvia Plath attempt to establish connection and relationship with the nature and her mother, which in the end failed. She made used of form and structure, personification, dictions , description and images to portray her message. In her establishment of connection with the nature, she personifies the surrounding such as trees, light, grasses and moon, giving them an identity and human nature and thus attempt to connect with them by describing how she thinks she understand them inside out. She felt that “ the light is blue” and “ The grasses [are unloading] their grief on [her] feet…”; this does not only signify that she understands the hearts of these nature but also her sad mood where everything she sees seem overwhelming with sadness. She filled her senses occupied with experiencing the nature; “ prickling my ankles” and “ murmuring…”, indicating her wholehearted attempt to establish connection with the nature.
Bored with nothing to do Kahlo taught herself to paint and it occupied her whist she was bedridden after the accident. After 3 years of painting, Kahlo took her paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Riviera and he encouraged her to keep painting. The two ended up marrying in 1929. She painted self portraits and claimed ‘ I paint myself because I am alone and I am the subject I know best ‘. All of her paintings were from personal experiences such as her marriage, miscarriages and her numerous operations.
In the short story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, the major conflict develops around Miss Brill’s denial of her isolation because of her age. Utilizing third person limited point of view and symbolism, Mansfield conveys her theme that as a person ages he/she realizes they have no value to society. By placing Miss Brill in Paris, the city of love, Mansfield develops her long suffering but forsaken character as a symbol of all older people. Mansfield begins the narrative by introducing Miss Brill as an introverted and lonely woman. The author solemnly describes Miss Brill’s worn out fur as a “dear little thing” to display Brill’s loving disposition and isolation by using the fur as a symbol of comfort and companionship.
Miss Gee Auden tells the story in Miss Gee through a series of phases in her life which are used to create a big impact. As we read the poem ‘Miss Gee’ we begin with a conservative women who is very lonely and seems to have no relationships with anyone, whether that may be family, friends or something more intimate. Further on we create an image with Auden’s words about the temptations Miss Gee has and the struggles she faces in order to control them and if she does actually want control over them. Then at the end we interpret that Miss Gee has died, however the last few stanzas of the poem contrast greatly from the image we have in the beginning. Through a relatively short poem we invent a lifelong image of a person because of how Auden tells us the story.
Also through Miss Gee’s dialogue of her mentioning that she lives on “one hundred pounds a year” you feel even more sympathetic towards her as that is very little money to live on for a year, and that she is living like a poor person. Even though Miss Gee is the main character in this poem she is shown to be insignificant. “Now let me tell you a little story about Miss Edith Gee” The opening line of the poem Auden instantly belittles her and makes her seem insignificant, but at the same time she is the only character in the poem that you meet in detail. This is effective as the reader then feels that she is insignificant, and although the poem is named after her, she is still an outcast and shown as an individual. She is continually referred to as small, which is further lowering the impressions of the character that the readers have of her.
The woman in the poem speaks of her life as though it were a chore and the man, her lover, is but a bother. In “Living in Sin” the speaker expresses their tone in the opening line “She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love.” The speaker thought that moving in would be a fairytale like story for her lover and herself if they moved in together. She never guessed that she would actually have to take care of their home. It also makes the reader think that perhaps the speaker came from a wealthy or well off family where the speaker didn’t have to do the usual household chores. “Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime.” The speaker is not even up to cleaning windows on her own.
Writing poetry, she later remarked, was a way to celebrate each day with the knowledge that she had not committed suicide. For Alice, inner peace could come only through self-knowledge, self-pride, and familial ties. “Family relationships,” she once wrote, “ are sacred.” In 1982, Walker published her most controversial and famous book, “The Color Purple”. The novel included vivid descriptions of rape, incest, bisexuality, lesbianism, crime and abuse. It recounted the tragic life story of Celie, a young victimized black woman.
Her siblings were also talented writers; Branwell published works throughout his life, and Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë published poetry and novels under the pseudonyms of Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell, respectively. They chose to hide their true identities because they knew their work would be taken more seriously if readers assumed they were men. In fact, after Brontë's death, readers were convinced her brother Branwell had actually penned Wuthering Heights. At the age of thirty, Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis, the illness that claimed the lives of most of the members of the Brontë family. Emily Brontë used characteristics of her own personality to help create the characters of her novel.